Stampin'B's Challenge # 17 hosted by Nicole Taylor

This is my first card in a week, I apologize. I've been sick and in too much pain to stamp.

This is my card for the Stampin'B's Follow the List challenge # 17.

The hosted this week is your truly (Nicole Taylor), my challenge to you is to make a baby card without using pink or blue.

For my card I used an digi image by Doodle Palace digital stamp images. I printed 2 images and colored them with Copic markers except for the lamb where I used Liquid Fabric and the heat gun to make it look like wool. I used one image for my main panel and cut up the other to pop-up for layering.

The sentiment is by SU/So many scallops. The back is embossed with a CB folder/Swiss Dots. I added a pretty yellow ribbon to finish.

I hope you will join us and play along at www.stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com

Hugs always, Nicole

Stampin'B's Challenge # 16 for July 24th, 2009

This is my card for the Stampin'B's Follow the List Challenge, this is # 16 and is hosted by Vicky Gould.

Vicky's challenge is to make a tall card and not use any stamping.

My card is 7 1/4' X 4 1/4".

This was super easy and need little explenation, the sentiment and the flourish are rub-ons.

For the flower I cut 5 petal shapes in Basic Black, stacked them all together and punched a small hole in the end. I added a brad and over that I glued on a page pebble. I spread the flower on half way and fixed it to the card.

The dragonfly is cut on a Cricut with the Decor cartridge and I added some pearl for pizzaz. LOL

I used an edge punch and added three black brads.

That just about sums it all up, I hope you enjoy it. I think I will put this one away for our Anniversary.

Hugs always, Nicole

BE_WT228_Charming

This is my card for today's Ways to us it challenge WT228.
The challenge was to use a charm on our card.
The Sun rays image and the sentiment are Unity's TOTM for July.
I stamped the sun in Mango and cut it out, I then used a petite scalloped Nestie and cut a small circle onto some dp that I had that had a sun face on it and cut that out too and pasted it over the sun image leaving just the rays. At the end of one of the rays, I punched a small hole and attached a heart charm.
The cs is all dp by DCWV/Once Upon a Time.
The sentiment is stamped in Bordering Blue and die cut with a CB and Labels Two die. I added a small blue brads to the top and colored the edges in Bordering Blue.
The dragonfly is done on a Cricut machine using the Decor cartridge. I added some light blue peals for effect.

Thanks for coming by and please come again.
Hugs always, Nicole

Challenge at SCS/SC238 for July 22/2009

Today is my DH's BD and I thought that this would be the perfect card.

I love to do Wednesday's sketch challenge and this one is a great one. If you see this, thanks Roxie.

For the main image I used a SU set called Of the Earth. This is a new set for me and I'm loving it. The dp's are by DCWV/La Creme matstack, I love this paper.

I stamped the image using a stamp-a-ma-gig as I wanted the image to be really black, I ended up stamping it 3 times.

The card itself needs little explaining. To finish off my card I added black grossgrain ribbon and a small cream seed brad.

I love so see who's dropped by each day so leave a comment if you have time.

Hugs always, Nicole

BE_C228_SCS Color Challenge

This is my first card for today's SCS_CC228 Challenge.

We are to use the colors Really Rust, Pretty in Pink and Not Quite Navy. The images are by Inkadinkado/Beauty Stems from Here and the sentiment is a rub-on. The image is colored with re-inkers, I stamped the image onto WW cs 2 times. The second time I just colored and cut the 2nd and the 3rd flowers from the bottom.

To finish I just added the pretty paper butterfly.

Hope you like this one.

This second card is a fun card. Pat Smethers sent me quite a few images of chickens and roosters as I love them so much. I used this one because the old rooster is doing the talking and the hen looked so frustrated by his comment. So I thought I would make him say:

What do you mean? Navy, pink and rust don't go together!!!

I colored the image with Copic markers except for the knitted sock that the hen is knitting, this I did with SU markers and then heat embossed in clear EP.

I hope that you enjoy these little endeavors of mine. Come again soon.

Hugs, Nicole

BE_CAS24_Joy!

I got a terrific surprise today, I won the blog candy at ISC. I got to choose 2 image sheet stamps. I chose the Picturesque and the serenety stamps. I never win anything, lucky me...

Hi to all my stamping friends, hope everyone had a terrific weekend.

This is my card for today's CAS24 challenge at SCS. The challenge was to use the colors: turquoise, orange and summer sun.

The image is by Inkadinkado/Morphic Bugs and the sentiment is by Rita Marie/Creative Design Boutique/Words to Live By.

I inked the image with SU markers, huffed on the image and stamped on WW cs. The rest is pretty much how you see it.

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by, Nicole

BE_Stampin'sB's for July 17th, 2009 Hosted by Lois

This is my card for today's July 17th, 2009 challenge at the Stampin'B's. Today's hostess is Lois and her challenge is to use a butterfly on our cards.

Please come and join us for the fun challenge at www.stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com remember there are no rules.

For my card I used a beautiful butterfly from Inkadinkado called Mindscapes.

I used Whisper White, Soft Suede and Chocolate Chip for my cs. I first embossed the WW with a SU embossing folder called Manhattan Flower then I stamped the image over the embossed flower in Chocolate Chip. The sentiment is by SU_Bella's Bloom and is stamped in Sand.

I re-stamped the butterfly in Versamark and heat embossed in Pure Gold. I popped up it on dimensionals.

This is a very simple card but I feel it's also elegant.

Thanks for dropping by and I'll see you soon.

Nicole